The world needs systems where all people can thrive - where compassion leads to action, curiosity inspires change, and accountability ensures sustained progress.

We make that happen.  

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We believe in liberatory change, where more and more people can be well and live meaningful lives.

That change isn’t happening fast enough. Existing approaches are meeting fierce resistance. Too many people are diminished and excluded.

We won’t get to the other side of this moment unless we do things differently.

The Institute for Liberatory Innovation delivers creative approaches to organizations, schools, and individuals. We shape systems where more people can thrive. Those systems become more efficient, effective, and focused on their mission.

Change accelerates, and endures.

  • Reframing Equity in Organizations: Accelerating and Sustaining Change

    We work with organizations to change behavior, and to design and tend systems that make is possible for anyone, from any background, to thrive in the system. Our approach drives change on relational and systemic levels, and builds the capacity to sustain it.

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  • Equity Scholar In Residence for PreK-12 Schools

    The ESR model combines genuine relationship, compassionate response, learner-centered professional development and responsive scholarship to give educators the information and skills they need to ensure that more and more children thrive in school as who they are and are becoming - and behave in ways that allow others to thrive.

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  • Bumbling Humans: Reflections on Liberatory Change

    In this compelling collection of essays, author and ILI Director Lucinda J. Garthwaite delves deep into the intricacies of human nature, challenges societal norms and offers an alternative perspective, urging readers to align their daily lives with a vision of a thriving, just, and peaceful future.

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  • Intersections: The Newsletter of the Institute for Liberatory Innovation

    A bi-weekly newsletter of thinking, resources and action for liberatory systems change.

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Thinking, News and Resources for Liberatory Change

The bi-weekly ILI newsletter invites readers to think differently, joining us in our efforts to create systems where compassion leads to action, curiosity inspires change, and accountability ensures sustained progress so more people thrive in ever more peace. 

We are fiercely strategic and intentional. We are impatient for change.